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Ron Johnson: “I don't think ISIS can be contained.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson on CNBC's Squawk Box

Published | Video Starts at 01:22

You know, right now it looks to me pretty much a strategy of degrading which we must do first and one of containment. And I don't think ISIS can be contained. Well, Senator Cardin, a. Do you agree with that? And if you do, do you still go through with the airstrikes if you don't think you can actually get to the other side on true success, whatever that means? (01:22–01:25)

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